I use the "timer" token as a semi-transparent "background" behind the current blinds. The timer token is set up to count down (in pie-chart fashion) the remaining seconds in a round.

When the remaining time is five seconds or less, I'd like to replace/amend that timer pie chart with one that just counts down five seconds (in other words, instead of counting down the round value, it will count down a user-defined variable instead).

Sure, I don't see why that's not possible. Just create another Property Set with conditions "secondsLeft <= 5" and it will be used once the timer gets down to 5 seconds. If you want some more specific help with the layout you can post it or send it directly to me (support@thetournamentdirector.net).

Thanks Corey. I've already got the dedicated property set sorted out so that it kicks in at =<5 seconds left.

BUT - as far as I can tell, the timer token is tied to countdown the length of the round.

Without boring you unnecessarily with the whys:I need the timer pie chart to countdown five seconds (so that the pie is whole at five seconds and reduces to zero in five second segments) and I'm not sure how to do that.

Does that make sense?

Boring you unnecessarily with the whys:This would be purely for dramatic effect (20 minute blinds, when there are only a few seconds left the remaining pie is a thin thin sliver (screenshot TTD2). Doing it this way, when there are five seconds left the sliver is replaced by a full pie which is eaten up in seconds (so it'll look more like the pie in screenshot TTD). Visually very effective (I think).

Thanks - being quite new to the delights of this software and HTML, it's hard figuring out what's possible for the user to create and what has to come from you! If for example I was a HTML wizard would I be able to create the pie chart based on a variable myself, or would you still need to create it?

Since the application is stuck in Internet Explorer 7 land at the moment, you definitely need me to create these things. In the future, it might be possible to do much of this on your own.

FYI, I updated the <timer> token and added an attribute percentage, which takes a formula. So it's possible to do this, for example:

<timer percentage="(secondsLeft % 6) / 5">

Which causes the timer chart to count down the last 5 seconds. Actually in this example it goes from 100% circle to gone every 5 seconds, but if this was in a property set that displayed only during the final 5 seconds, I think it would do what you want.